Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taco Metals LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ARK, DARREN W. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is localized within the patent office's organizational structure. This concentration suggests that the company's intellectual property focus is currently limited to a specific subset of mechanical or transportation technologies that are reviewed by a single technical group.
The busiest examiner, ARK, DARREN W, is overseeing 1 pending office action. This single examiner manages the entirety of the company's pending portfolio. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can focus on a singular set of examiner expectations and art unit norms. This direct relationship simplifies the prosecution landscape, as there are no competing examiner styles to reconcile. The applicant can tailor their arguments specifically to the technical understanding and procedural requirements of ARK, DARREN W to advance the pending matter toward allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARK, DARREN W | 1 | 56.3% | +64.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049439 | OUTRIGGER MOUNT ASSEMBLY | ARK, DARREN W | 32d overdue |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049439 | OUTRIGGER MOUNT ASSEMBLY | ARK, DARREN W | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049439 | OUTRIGGER MOUNT ASSEMBLY | ARK, DARREN W | 3647 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
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